Meet Our Juror
Niles Nordquist, OPA
A native of California, Niles Nordquist is equally at home painting the beauty of the Pacific coast, the majesty of the mountains of the West, or the solitude of the California deserts and backcountry. His early childhood lived on the Oregon coast, and summers spent at his parents’ home place in Montana, shaped his love for natural landscapes.
As a young boy, he spent much time exploring, hiking, and camping in back country. And, as a Landscape Architect, has developed over his lifetime an eye trained to capture the nuances of nature and the landscape. His paintings reflect the timelessness of God’s creation in special places.
He searches for the uncommon view of a place, one that is not only new to him, but also that displays the powerful effects of light, that captures the sense of place and time, the essence of the present moment.
Nordquist paints en plein aire and in his Star, Idaho, studio, expanding smaller studies into larger works. He accepts private commissions.